Case 6-Asia-China-Zhou-Gui Tureen-Bronze-1000 BCE
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Edward L. Shaughnessy has identified four different Western Zhou Gui styles of which he has called this Style I or the Li Gui style, the earliest of which is characterized as the most heterogeneous with a “pronounced relief décor of facing animal heads and by flamboyant handles and flanges” (Shaughnessy 1992: 129 and fig. 2a).
LC Classification: NK7983.
Date or Time Horizon: 1000 BCE
Geographical Area: Zhou Kingdom
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Cultural Affiliation: Zhou
Medium: Bronze
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A comparable example is in the Avery Brundage Collection ( d'Argencé 1967:34-35, no. IX).
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d'Argencé, René-Yvon Lefebvre. 1967. Bronze vessels of ancient China in the Avery Brundage Collection. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. [Berkeley, Calif.]: Published by Diablo Press for the De Young Museum Society
Shaughnessy, E.L., 1992. Sources of Western Zhou history: inscribed bronze vessels. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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